We invite you to participate in
NPAR 2002
The 2nd International Symposium on
Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

sponsored by the International Animation Festival of Annecy
in cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH and Eurographics

June 3-5, 2002
Annecy, France

NPAR 2002 is the second international symposium dedicated to non-photorealistic animation and rendering, including cartoon animation systems and techniques. Held in conjunction with the International Animated Film Festival of Annecy, France, the symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, showcase cutting-edge research in non-photorealistic animation and rendering systems and techniques, and present examples of these techniques in original computer-animated films. All registrants will also receive a pass to the International Animated Film Festival, which will be held during the same week, June 3-8.

Advance Program

MONDAY 3 JUNE 2002

9:30 - 10:30 Registration and coffee

10:30 - 11:00 Welcome: Adam Finkelstein

11:00 - 12:30 Keynote talk: David Salesin

2:00 -  3:30 Alternate Rendering Pipeline
Cartoon Dioramas in Motion
        Ramesh Raskar, Remo Ziegler, and Thomas Willwacher

HijackGL: Reconstructing from Streams for Stylized Rendering
        Alex Mohr and Michael Gleicher

Video Mosaics
        Allison W. Klein, Tyler Grant, Adam Finkelstein and Michael F. Cohen
4:00 -  5:30 Hatching and Shading
Hatching by Example: a Statistical Approach
        Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Emric Epstein, Martin Granger-Pichi and Victor Ostromoukhov

Weighted Voronoi Stippling
        Adrian Secord

Illumination for Cel Animation
        Scott F. Johnston
TUESDAY 4 JUNE, 2002

9:00 - 10:30 Hardware
Fine Tone Control in Hardware Hatching
        Matthew Webb, Emil Praun, Adam Finkelstein and Hugues Hoppe

Hardware Accelerated Real Time Charcoal Rendering
        Aditi Majumder and M. Gopi

Hardware-Accelerated Parallel Non-Photorealistic Volume Rendering
        Eric Lum and Kwan-Liu Ma

11:00 - 12:30 Painterly Rendering
Abstracted Painterly Renderings Using Eye-Tracking Data
        Anthony Santella and Doug DeCarlo

Artistic Vision: Painterly Rendering Using Computer Vision Techniques
        Bruce Gooch

Fast Paint Texture
        Aaron Hertzmann
 2:00 -  3:30 Visual Communication
Creating Non-Photorealistic Images the Designer's Way
        Nick Halper and Stefan Schlechtweg

Evaluating Space Perception in NPR Immersive Environments
        Amy Ashurst Gooch and Peter Willemsen

An Invitation to Discuss Computer Depiction
        Fredo Durand
 4:00 -  5:30 Group Discussion, Topic TBA

WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE, 2002

 9:00 - 10:30 Animation
Computer Aided Inbetweening
        Alexander Kort

Simulating Cartoon Style Animation
        Stephen Chenney, Mark Pingel, Rob Iverson and Marcin Szymanski

SnakeToonz: A Semi-Automatic Approach to Creating Cel Animation from Video
        Aseem Agarwala
11:00 - 12:00 Capstone talk: Chris Wedge, Director of Ice Age, Blue Sky Studios

12:00 - 12:10 Closing: Adam Finkelstein


Registration

Click here for the registration form (in Adobe Acrobat format). This form registers you for both NPAR and the Annecy Festival. Note: the early registration deadline is April 15.

Also note: prices are listed in euros.

In case you have problems viewing or printing the registration form, we have provided scanned images of the form below. These are 300dpi images in PNG format. You may be able to print them from your browser. (It worked for us using Netscape.) Otherwise download and print them using an image viewing program that lets you set the output resolution to 300dpi.


Housing

If you wish to arrange a hotel through the animation festival, use this form (Adobe Acrobat format). They request early notice: by the end of March.

Also, feel free to take charge of matters and make your own reservations. A quick web search found the following hotel information for Annecy. In each case look for hotels located in Annecy 74000.


Annecy Picture

Locale

Annecy is located in the French Alps, 45 minutes from the Geneva International Airport and 4 hours from Paris by TGV.

It is a beautiful town on the Lac d'Annecy, with sweeping views across the lake of the majestic French Alps. The Old Town is filled with beautiful medieval buildings connected by a labyrinth of narrow, car-free streets and bridges over the several canals that wind through town. Each year, Annecy organizes the International Animation Film Festival in which thousands of professional animators and designers gather to share their impressions during the screenings of the best animated productions of the year, which take place all day long in several theaters throughout the town and at an open-air giant screen.


Conference Organization

Conference Chair


Adam Finkelstein
 Princeton University, USA
Advisory Board


Jean-Daniel Fekete
 École des Mines de Nantes, France
David Salesin
 Microsoft Research and University of Washington, USA
Animation Co-Chairs


Chris Rowland
 University of Dundee, UK
Stefan Schlechtweg
 University of Magdeburg, Germany
Program Committee


Ronen Barzel 
 Pixar, USA
John Buchanan
 Electronic Arts, Canada
Marie-Paule Cani
 iMAGIS, INP Grenoble, France
Edwin Catmull
 Pixar, USA
Cassidy Curtis
 PDI/Dreamworks, USA
Oliver Deussen
 Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Gershon Elber
 Technion, Israel
Aaron Hertzmann
 University of Toronto, Canada
Takeo Igarashi
 University of Tokyo, Japan
Lee Markosian
 Princeton University, USA
Barbara Meier
 Brown University, USA
Victor Ostromoukhov
 University of Montreal, Canada
Peter Shirley
 University of Utah, USA
Thomas Strothotte
 University of Magdeburg, Germany
Organization Committee


Tiziana Loschi
 CICA, Annecy, France
Questions? Send mail to: npar2002 @ cs.princeton.edu